Against my better judgement, I’ve started working on gearing up another of my characters that I abandoned after hitting 80 in the month after the WotLK launch. I’d finished with all of my EoT gear on my Paladin and Shaman, and told myself that I was just going to get exalted with two factions for [...]
Posts Tagged raid
Reasonable Expectations
Jan 21
Bridging the 10 to 25 Gap
Jan 18
In the post on guild mergers, I talked a little about what to do when you’re trying to expand from a 10 person to 25 person guild. Today, I’d like to expand on that a bit outside of the context of mergers or alliances (the latter of which will be covered in a future post). [...]
I read a post on a bluetracker last week (and forgot to bookmark it – again) in which the poster asked “do you need a guild now that we have the dungeon finder tool?”. Thinking about that leads me to consider the changing role of the guild in WoW. Since the initial release, guilds have [...]
A comment by Malevica on a recent article inspired me to write about excuses. Excuses for leaving groups, for missing raids, for poor performance, for lack of knowledge, for not heading to the dungeon when your group fills up and generally just not giving your all when playing with others. WoW is a game, first [...]
A long time ago, in a raid far, far away…… 40 stalwart explorers milled about just inside the entrance portal of Molten Core. Before us stood two massive Molten Destroyers, blocking our path. But confidence filled the air; we’d been here before. We’d felled these behemoths before. We knew what lay ahead of us and [...]
Last night I joined an Ulduar 10 semi-pug (half of the attendees were from one guild). Only about half of the members had any experience with the fights, but most of the inexperienced people were receptive to explanations we gave. Except one. Our group included one member who had no experience in the instance, hadn’t [...]
